The Reel Quotes skit was pretty good and I’ll always love MacGruber, although apparently some people found it offensive. (Why? Humor is supposed to push buttons. Come on.)

Scared Straight is also a best bet, but mostly because host Charles Barkley and SNL’s Bill Hader kept cracking up. (Bill Hader is always the first to lose it.)

Barkley’s monologue was as honest as he promised.

Shana and Charles Barkley in the ski bunny skit.

The ski bunny skit was OK, too, but not great. (But a lot of fans online seem to LOVE the Shana skit. Huh.)

Most of the other skits were pretty lame, though. (Poor Alicia Keys got the worst Digital Short ever.)

Barkley is not naturally funny and he was much too obvious about reading off the teleprompter/cue cards/whatever, but he gets props for poking fun at himself.

I wish he had done a Barney rematch, though. Just for old times.

Can’t wait for Sigourney Weaver next week. After “Galaxy Quest,” I stopped doubting her comedic prowess. Besides, “Avatar” is ripe for a good spoofing.

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BARKLEY’S HONEST MONOLOGUE

He said it was great to be hosting SNL again. He hosted 16 years ago when he was in great shape and coming off an MVP season.

“Now I play bad golf, drink, and sometimes I get arrested.”

In the past year, he said, SNL has had 1 black host out of 32. “That’s the same ratio of black people to white people that went to see ‘It’s Complicated.'”

He tells a guy in the audience he is wearing the ugliest shirt he’s ever seen. Then he tells a girl she’s cute in a Jewish way and insists she’s really a freak. “I know a freaky white girl when I see one.” Then he talks to the only other black guy in the room full of 500 white people. “There’s nothing sadder than a black nerd,” he tells the guy, calling him Urkel.

He brings out Kenan Thompson, SNL’s only black cast member, to do his Charles Barkley impression.

He admits some of the show is great and some of it they’re just going to do anyway.

Kristen Wiig plays Shana, the sexy Marilyn Monroe-esque ski bunny all the guys — Kenan Thompson, Andy Samberg, Will Forte and Charles Barkley — drool over at a lodge, much to the irritation of Jenny Slate.

But her little tricks don’t turn out to be as sexy as the guy’s expected.